7"The Essential Wizard of Oz" is brimming with amazing true stories, corrected myths, and particular particulars about the most-watched movie in film history - more than one billion people have seen MGM's 1939 classic. The book is not meant to provide a comprehensive nor complete academic reference, but rather an accessible distillation, a delightful confection in its own right, about a film that is one of the most beloved pieces of motion picture art and one that has resonated across three-quarters of a century.